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The Duggar daughters’ message is clear and stark. Ladies: Men can be frightening and dangerous. Your best defense is preventative. Turn inward and make yourself a Godly woman worthy of a Godly man…or risk abuse.

An argument in favor of boundary-crossing.

When people learn that, as a lifelong and practicing Christian, I am married to a Jewish man and that we practice both religions in our house, I often become the safe person to ask about Judaism. I like this advocate role for the opportunity it gives me to gently encourage folks to look at ways in which their privilege as a member of a majority population can sometimes cause them to cause offense.

Do we just want to believe?

Don’t worry, be happy.

Liberal and orthodox evangelicals battle over the future.

The Noah controversy has more to do whether or not Aronofsky approached the sacred text with the proper reverential attitude, placing himself under the authority of scriptural truth; Biblicism is the issue, not biblical literalism.

Opponents decried the Charter as a thinly disguised attack on religious minorities, especially Muslim women […] and to that extent, a sign of Quebec’s lamentable endorsement of a broader Islamophobia that has swept the Western world in the post-9/11 context. The defeat of the government at the polls on 7 April would seem to indicate that the agenda of the Charter has now come to an end.

The Flood story forces us to grapple with the deeply impersonal forces of the universe that are set against human civilization.

The battle rages over whether Darren Aronofsky’s popular new film is faithful to the Bible. If nothing else, it’s faithful to the long tradition of interpreting bible stories in a particular historical context.